Sir Adrian Scroope
1601-1660
Born: Lewkner, Oxfordshire, ENG
Died: Charing Cross, London, ENG
<ul><li> Deacon William THROOP (1)(150) (151) (152) was born on 19 Mar 1636 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. He was christened on 19 Mar 1636 in Lound, , Nottinghamshire, England. He died on 4 Dec 1704 in Bristol, Newport, Ri. He was buried on 4 Dec 1704 in East Burial Grou, Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. He has Ancestral File number 3K32-ZT. GEN: The author Walter May Throop of THE THROOP TREE, 1971 claims, after much<br> GEN: research, that William Throop is actually named Adrian Scroope, the some of<br> GEN: Col. Adriane Scroope who was a regicide. The Col. was executed and William<br> GEN: fled to the colonies. William WAS an assemblyman, Selectman, Highway<br> GEN: Surveyor and Grand juryman in Rhode Island. He arrived there, says the CHAPMAN<br> GEN: GENEALOGY in 1640 when the family packed up the ox (from MA?) and went to<br> GEN: Bristol, RI. The Scroope bit has been refuted in the TAG. He was married to Mary CHAPMAN on 14 May 1666 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA.</li></ul> <br> <span>Name:</span><br> William may ver well have been the son of William Throop I11177 and Isabell Redshaw I11178. However, if he was the son of Adrian Scrope it makes the family history so much more interesting.<br> <br> For now I am going to assume that William was Adrian Scroope the son of Adrian Scroope and Mary Waller.<br> <br> Dave Howard<br> Nov 2006
<p align="left">There is much discussion over the parentage of William. One faction claims he was the son of the Regicide Adrian Scroope while the other (the most likely) gives William Throope, York England, d. aft. 1669, m. 9 Jun 1636 Isabell Redshaw bur. 22 Jun 1658 as his parents. He was reported to have m. 7 Feb 1664/5 Elizabeth Cooke bur. 26 Jul 1669. This marriage took place before he left for America.</p> <p align="left">World Family Tree; Notes: Disk 18-2278<br> [Across Throup's Bridge], Malcolm Throup, Margaret Throup Lancaster, 1986<br> William Throope in his own words said 'he had just changed his name from Colonel Adrian Scroope'. He and Mary traveled into the New England interior by ox cart. He became Surveyor of Highways, Grand Juryman and Representative, finally dying in December 1704 aged 67, commencing his will "In the name and fear of God". A somewhat unusual wording. Three of his children were baptised (in the English Throope tradition), John, William and Thomas. This story is related in the New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record 1905, vol 36, a lengthy article and an interesting account of American 'Throop' history. The writer must not have known of the marriage of William Throope to Elizabeth Cooke, or of other Nottinghamshire Throopes. In all fairness, the article was written in the era before Parish records were centralized and placed on microfilm. Perhaps with the aid of modern research facilities, a different conclusion might have been reached. <br> The above would not be complete without some elaboration on Col. Adrian Scroope. Col. Adrian, the regicide (signatory of the Death Warrant of Charles I) was executed in 1660, aged 58, as retribution for this deed, on the restoration of the English monarchy, without ever having left England's shores. Without any doubt, Col. Adrian Scroope, the regicide, and William Throope of New England could not possibly have been one and the same. Whatever connection they had in England, if any, will never by known.</p> <p align="left">Disk 1-267 Know as Deacon Throope</p> <p align="left">Disk 11-4139 WILLIAM THROOPE(ADRIAN SCROOPE) (1637-1704) -- William Throope, born and named Adrian Scroope, was the youngest son of Colonel Adrian Scroope, member of the English Parliament and one of the members who formed the High Court of Justice that tired and found guilty King Charles I of England and them imposed the death penalty on the King on January 30, 1649. Several years later, after Oliver Cromwell died, Sir Adrian and the other conspirators were put into prison. While there, Sir Adrian met with his sons, including William, and suggested that as he was certain to be executed for his role in the High Court of Justice, it might be that the conspirators sons would also be arrested. Thus, he cautioned that they leave England. As a result, William left England for the American Colonies, possibly traveling there via Leyden, Holland. <br> Once in the American Colonies, William changed his name from Adrian Scroope to William Throope, married in Barnstable, MA, had a family, and settled in Bristol, Rhode Island along with Nathaniel Blagrave, one of the regicides. William's sister Elizabeth had married Jothan Blagrave of Longworth, Buckinghamshire, England. In Bristol, William was a highway surveyor, selectman (in 1689), grandjuryman (in 1680 and 1690), and served as a representative to the Rhode Island Assembly in 1691. <br> It is interesting that William settled in Bristol. In 1649, his father was governor of Bristol Castle in England and other members of his family had settled in the town of Bristol, England. </p> <p align="left">World Family Tree; Notes: Disk 11-4139<br> MARY CHAPMAN (1643-1732) -- Mary Chapman, wife of William Throope, was the daughter of Ralph Chapman who arrived in the American colonies in 1635 on board the "Elizabeth," the next ship to come after the "Mayflower." </p>
Adrian Scrope From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <div><br></div> <!-- start content --> <p>Colonel <strong>Adrian Scrope</strong> (c. 1601 - 17 October 1660) was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I.</p> //<!--[CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]--> <p> </p> <span>From the Scrope family</span> <p>Adrian Scrope occupied the Scrope mansion at Wormsley, Oxfordshire and was a member of the extended Scrope/Scroope family, members of which appear in four of Shakespeare's plays and whose descendants (in the female line, and through two illegitimate heiresses) retain private ownership of Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales.</p> <p> </p> <span>The regicide</span> <p>Adrian was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I in January of 1649 at the end of the English Civil War. Eleven years later, when Charles II of England was restored to the throne all the men directly responsible for the death of Charles I were in grave danger. Some fled the country but Adrian Scrope was arrested, tried and found guilty of being a Regicide. He suffered the cruel punishment for high treason which was at that time of being hanged, drawn and quartered around 13 October 1660.</p><p> </p><span>The regicide of Charles I of England</span> <br> <p>After the First English Civil War, King Charles I was a prisoner of the Parliamentarians. They tried to negotiate a compromise with him, but he stuck steadfastly to his view that he was King by Divine Right and attempted in secret to raise an army to fight against them. When it became obvious to the leaders of the Parliamentarians that they could not negotiate a settlement with him and they could not trust him to refrain from raising an army against them, they reluctantly came to the conclusion that they would have to kill him. On 13 December 1648, the House of Commons broke off negotiations with the King. Two days later, the Council of Officers of the New Model Army voted that the King be moved from the Isle of Wight, where he was prisoner, to Windsor "<em>in order to the bringing of him speedily to justice</em>".<sup>[1]</sup> In the middle of December, the King was moved from Windsor to London. The House of Commons of the Rump Parliament passed a Bill setting up a High Court of Justice in order to try Charles I for high treason in the name of the people of England. From a Royalist and post-restoration perspective this Bill was not lawful, since the House of Lords refused to pass it and it failed to receive Royal Assent. However, the Parliamentary leaders and the Army pressed on with the trial anyway.</p> <p>At his trial in front of The High Court of Justice on Saturday 20 January 1649 in Westminster Hall, Charles asked "<em>I would know by what power I am called hither. I would know by what authority, I mean lawful [authority]</em>".<sup>[2]</sup> In view of the historic issues involved, both sides based themselves on surprisingly technical legal grounds. Charles did not dispute that Parliament as a whole did have some judicial powers, but he maintained that the House of Commons on its own could not try anybody, and so he refused to plead. At that time under English law if a prisoner refused to plead then this was treated as a plea of guilty. (This has since been changed; a refusal to plead now is interpreted as a not-guilty plea.)</p> <p>He was found guilty on Saturday 27 January 1649, and his death warrant was signed by 59 Commissioners. To show their agreement with the sentence of death, all of the Commissioners who were present rose to their feet.</p> <p>On the day of his execution, 30 January 1649, Charles dressed in two shirts so that he would not shiver from the cold, in case it was said that he was shivering from fear. His execution was delayed by several hours so that the House of Commons could pass an emergency bill to make it an offence to proclaim a new King, and to declare the representatives of the people, the House of Commons, as the source of all just power. Charles was then escorted through the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall to a scaffold. He forgave those who had passed sentence on him and gave instructions to his enemies that they should learn to "<em>know their duty to God, the King - that is, my successors - and the people</em>".<sup>[3]</sup> He then gave a brief speech outlining his unchanged views of the relationship between the monarchy and the monarch's subjects, ending with the words "<em>I am the martyr of the people</em>".<sup>[4]</sup> His head was severed from his body with one blow.</p> <p>One week later, the Rump, sitting in the House of Commons, passed a bill abolishing the monarchy. Ardent Royalists refused to accept it on the basis that there could never be a vacancy of the Crown. Others refused because, as the bill had not passed the House of Lords and did not have Royal Assent, it could not become an Act of Parliament.</p> <p>The Declaration of Breda 11 years later paved the way for the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. At the restoration, thirty-one of the fifty-nine Commissioners who had signed the death warrant were living. A general pardon was given by Charles II and Parliament to his opponents, but the regicides were excluded. A number fled the country. Some, such as Daniel Blagrave, fled to continental Europe, while others like John Dixwell, Edward Whalley, and William Goffe fled to New Haven, Connecticut. Those who were still available were put on trial. Six regicides were found guilty and suffered the fate of being hanged, drawn and quartered: Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scroope, John Carew, Thomas Scot, and Gregory Clement. The captain of the guard at the trial, Daniel Axtell who encouraged his men to barrack the King when he tried to speak in his own defence, an influential preacher Hugh Peters, and the leading prosecutor at the trial John Cook were executed in a similar manner. Colonel Francis Hacker who signed the order to the executioner of the king and commanded the guard around the scaffold and at the trial was hanged. Some regicides were pardoned, while a further nineteen served life imprisonment. The bodies of the regicides Cromwell, Bradshaw and Ireton which had been buried in Westminster Abbey were disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered. In 1662, three more regicides John Okey, John Barkstead and Miles Corbet were also hanged, drawn and quartered. The officers of the court that tried Charles I, those who prosecuted him and those who signed his death warrant, have been known ever since the restoration as regicides.</p> <p>The Parliamentary Archives in the Palace of Westminster, London, holds the original death warrant of Charles I.</p> <p> </p> <span>His portrait</span> <p>Adrian's portrait was painted by (or after) Robert Walker and is displayed in the U.K. National Portrait Gallery.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <span>External links</span> <ul><li>Adrian's portrait painted by (or after) Robert Walker, hanging in the U.K. National Portrait Gallery It is item number NPG4435 there.</li><li>Robert Walker's (1599-1658) portraits in the U.K. National Portrait Gallery</li><li>A biography of Adrian with some detail about his trial</li><li>Some details about his extended family can be found at the following links: <ul><li>http://www.scroope.net/ancestors/cockerington/scropesofcockerington.htm</li><li>http://www.scroope.net/</li><li>Family tree of Amos G. Throop</li></ul> </li></ul>